Removal of the ocular artifacts from EEG data using a cascaded spatio-temporal processing

Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2006 Aug;83(2):95-103. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2006.03.009. Epub 2006 Aug 1.

Abstract

Eye movements and blinks may produce unusual voltage changes in human electroencephalogram (EEG). These effects may spread across scalp and mask brain signals. In this paper, a cascaded spatio-temporal processing procedure (CAST) is presented to remove artifact electrooculogram (EOG). Firstly a discrete equivalent distributed source on the cortical surface is reconstructed from the contaminated scalp recordings by a linear minimum norm estimation (i.e. a spatial analysis step). Then, the equivalent sources of EOG are identified by principal component analysis (PCA) of the equivalent distributed source time series (i.e. a temporal analysis step). Finally, the EOG-corrected scalp EEG is reconstructed from the equivalent distributed source where EOG components have been removed. The effectiveness of CAST is confirmed by the application to actual scalp data and a detailed comparative study.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Algorithms*
  • Electroencephalography / methods*
  • Electrooculography / methods*
  • Eye Movements / physiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Principal Component Analysis*
  • Scalp / physiology